http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/07/10/concrete.attack.ap/index.html
July 10, 2000
Web posted at: 11:00 AM EDT (1500 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- A 25-year-old woman was hit on the head with a 5-pound
concrete block in New York City by a man who tried unsuccessfully to snatch
her purse then ran away, police said.
Tiffany Goldberg suffered a fractured skull and fell to the pavement when she
was attacked Sunday while walking from church to a subway station.
The chunk of concrete, believed to be a piece of sidewalk, was found nearby.
Goldberg was hospitalized Monday in stable condition. Hospital officials said
there was no apparent sign of neurological damage and she was able to speak by
telephone to her father in Madison, Wisconsin.
Goldberg, a waitress who moved to New York four years ago from Wisconsin
to pursue a dream of singing on Broadway, was struck on the back of the head.
She suffered two chipped teeth, cuts and bruises when she fell to the pavement.
"This is a terrible thing to have happen," Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said.
It was at least the third such attack in New York during the past year.
In May, a 30-year-old Queens woman was hit by a brick and robbed.
Last November, Nicole Barrett, 27, was hit on the head with a paving brick in
midtown Manhattan while walking to work. She underwent two brain operations
and has returned to her home in Texas for rehabilitation.
Paris Drake, an ex-convict and drug abuser, was charged with second-degree
attempted murder for Barrett's attack. He has pleaded not guilty.
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Looks like they need more concrete block laws in NY.
July 10, 2000
Web posted at: 11:00 AM EDT (1500 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- A 25-year-old woman was hit on the head with a 5-pound
concrete block in New York City by a man who tried unsuccessfully to snatch
her purse then ran away, police said.
Tiffany Goldberg suffered a fractured skull and fell to the pavement when she
was attacked Sunday while walking from church to a subway station.
The chunk of concrete, believed to be a piece of sidewalk, was found nearby.
Goldberg was hospitalized Monday in stable condition. Hospital officials said
there was no apparent sign of neurological damage and she was able to speak by
telephone to her father in Madison, Wisconsin.
Goldberg, a waitress who moved to New York four years ago from Wisconsin
to pursue a dream of singing on Broadway, was struck on the back of the head.
She suffered two chipped teeth, cuts and bruises when she fell to the pavement.
"This is a terrible thing to have happen," Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said.
It was at least the third such attack in New York during the past year.
In May, a 30-year-old Queens woman was hit by a brick and robbed.
Last November, Nicole Barrett, 27, was hit on the head with a paving brick in
midtown Manhattan while walking to work. She underwent two brain operations
and has returned to her home in Texas for rehabilitation.
Paris Drake, an ex-convict and drug abuser, was charged with second-degree
attempted murder for Barrett's attack. He has pleaded not guilty.
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Looks like they need more concrete block laws in NY.